Hacker News

1.		First firing of air-breathing electric thruster (esa.int)
		196 points by sohkamyung 4 hours ago \| hide \| 53 comments
2.		OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings (eater.com)
		155 points by danso 6 hours ago \| hide \| 70 comments
3.		MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies (techcrunch.com)
		302 points by vorpalhex 12 hours ago \| hide \| 169 comments
4.		Clang Is Now Used to Build Chrome for Windows (llvm.org)
		311 points by janvdberg 13 hours ago \| hide \| 83 comments
5.		Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.11.0 (github.com)
		69 points by tidwall 5 hours ago \| hide \| 7 comments
6.		The Mystery of the Slow Downloads (panic.com)
		271 points by Doubleguitars 11 hours ago \| hide \| 53 comments
7.		Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (marckhoury.github.io)
		308 points by marckhoury 13 hours ago \| hide \| 51 comments
8.		New Giant Viruses Further Blur the Definition of Life (quantamagazine.org)
		88 points by IntronExon 7 hours ago \| hide \| 44 comments
9.		A new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat (amitkapila16.blogspot.com)
		90 points by amitkapila 6 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
10.		Scheme web framework GNU Artanis-0.2.3 [stable] released (gnu.org)
		12 points by nalaginrut 2 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
11.		Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latency (engineering.instagram.com)
		352 points by mikeyk 15 hours ago \| hide \| 129 comments
12.		How generics were added to .NET (mattwarren.org)
		159 points by matthewwarren 11 hours ago \| hide \| 71 comments
13.		History of the browser user-agent string (2008) (webaim.org)
		471 points by jesperht 10 hours ago \| hide \| 135 comments
14.		Pitching Your Startup (stripe.com)
		79 points by gk1 7 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
15.		John Carmack – Programming Neural Net Library on OpenBSD (facebook.com)
		19 points by symisc_devel 4 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
16.		Notes for new Make users (sourceforge.net)
		282 points by henry_flower 15 hours ago \| hide \| 72 comments
17.		Get specific (2008) (sivers.org)
		69 points by duck 9 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
18.		Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money Back (chicagomaroon.com)
		99 points by avree 11 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
19.		Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor (github.com)
		265 points by seanwilson 9 hours ago \| hide \| 167 comments
20.		The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (ieee.org)
		118 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago \| hide \| 66 comments
21.		Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer (theguardian.com)
		152 points by DanBC 16 hours ago \| hide \| 72 comments
22.		P&G and WPP: How shit hit the fan in digital marketing (mumbrella.com.au)
		137 points by tambourine_man 14 hours ago \| hide \| 65 comments
23.		Paypal Patent Application: Expedited Virtual Currency Transaction System (uspto.gov)
		120 points by lrvick 11 hours ago \| hide \| 69 comments
24.		Google's C++ Class (developers.google.com)
		209 points by hamid914 10 hours ago \| hide \| 41 comments
25.		Timers, reminders, alarms – oh, my (leancrew.com)
		44 points by idoh 10 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
26.		In which a compiler gets its wings (technomancy.us)
		65 points by signa11 12 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
27.		A few things I've learned about computer networking (jvns.ca)
		50 points by weinzierl 4 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
28.		SlimerJS: a replacement for PhantomJS using recent Firefox (slimerjs.org)
		59 points by fanf2 12 hours ago \| hide \| 23 comments
29.		Fond (YC W12) Is Looking for a Director of Product in SF (lever.co)
		3 hours ago \| hide
30.		Youngsters keeping traditional trades alive (bbc.co.uk)
		70 points by DanBC 13 hours ago \| hide \| 39 comments
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